Google’s Big Bet: Up to $40 Billion Headed to Anthropic

Google’s Big Bet: Up to $40 Billion Headed to Anthropic

Google is preparing to invest a headline-grabbing sum in Anthropic — at least $10 billion, with the potential to rise to $40 billion if the startup meets certain performance milestones. The deal follows a recent $5 billion commitment from Amazon and collectively values Anthropic at roughly $350 billion. This funding round underscores how hyperscalers are using capital, cloud services, and

Anthropic’s Project Deal: Claude AI Agents Close 186 Deals and Reveal Market Asymmetries

Anthropic’s Project Deal: Claude AI Agents Close 186 Deals and Reveal Market Asymmetries

When Anthropic turned its San Francisco office into a live, classified marketplace in December 2025, it wasn’t testing a new website so much as an idea: could autonomous Claude AI agents not only list items but negotiate and close real, multi-turn deals with zero human intervention? The answer, in the company’s “Project Deal” experiment, was a clear yes — and

DeepSeek V4: a cheaper, larger LLM that narrows the gap with frontier models

DeepSeek V4: a cheaper, larger LLM that narrows the gap with frontier models

Chinese lab DeepSeek has released preview details for DeepSeek V4, a major update the company says brings its models much closer to so-called frontier systems. The announcement introduces two variants — V4 Flash and V4 Pro — and highlights big increases in scale, a 1 million-token context window, and aggressive pricing that positions the models as lower-cost alternatives to high-end

OpenAI Debuts Shared Workspace Agents to Automate Team Handoffs

OpenAI Debuts Shared Workspace Agents to Automate Team Handoffs

OpenAI has introduced a new class of ChatGPT tools called shared workspace agents — always-on assistants designed to carry work across systems and through multi-step processes without constant human prompting. Built on Codex, these agents aim to reduce the friction of manual handoffs inside teams by gathering information from connected systems, executing defined steps, and returning results in a way

Google Makes AI Your New Office Intern with Workspace Intelligence and Gemini

Google Makes AI Your New Office Intern with Workspace Intelligence and Gemini

At its Cloud Next event, Google unveiled a suite of AI upgrades to Workspace designed to turn routine office tasks into something closer to automated muscle memory. Rather than a single flashy feature, the update stitches together a set of capabilities — Workspace Intelligence plus deeper Gemini integrations across Docs, Sheets, and other apps — that aim to reduce busywork

Accenture and WaveMaker’s bet on mid-market AI modernization

Accenture and WaveMaker’s bet on mid-market AI modernization

Accenture and WaveMaker have forged a strategic collaboration aimed at helping mid-market organizations modernize their applications using WaveMaker’s agentic AI platform. Rather than positioning this as a large enterprise play, the partnership focuses on companies with revenues up to about $3 billion that often lack the budgets or in-house engineering scale for full-scale digital transformation. The goal is practical: accelerate